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Very OT but can someone tell me if AVB gets a Champions League winners medal?

Wasnt for the Villa, Id never have the balls to do that was for my own local team, just wanted to see what a certain adidas jersey would look like with our badge on it, before I presented it to the board at the agm.

You're right, we should have brought on Cattermole. Should have thrown Milner into the middle and Walcott out the right.

Did you watch the England games? Wellbeck and Carroll were both very impressive this tournament. Wellbeck not so much vs Italy, but for the rest of it he did well. Carroll has gone up massively in my estimations. He's been excellent, even if it was doing a job that isn't particularly attractive. Milner again may not have done anything attractive, but he put in some excellent performances becauise of his workrate. He's allowed Johnson to push forward because he's so good at covering. No arguments about Young, he was poor. Downing barely played. Lampard didn't play. Gerrard was one of the players of the tournament, albeit again didn't really show it vs Italy Not saying England are "good enough" (good enough for what?). But you appear to have based your opinions on club form last season. Nearly all of the players you mentioned actually did pretty well at the Euros I watched all their games bar the Sweden one. With regard the strikers, Im merely stating, that I would not want Wellbeck at Villa, England have for far too long in my view had strikers who are not goal scorers in the team and by goalscorers I mean prolific. Heskey, Vassell, Crouch. The players that were called up in the non too distant past inclued Zamora, Cambell and remember when Jay Boothroyd got a call up? I mean come on like, remember when there was a time Andy Cole wasnt good enough to start for England, eventhough himself and Yorke were cutting wreck at United. With regard Carroll, he put in a shift and is amazing in the air but he doesnt score enough, simple as for a player as dominant as he is in the air he should be scoring a goal every other game from set pieces but he doesnt. With regard Milner, we all know what he is capable of, but for me he is not a wide player, due to the fact he is a poor crosser of a ball, his hustle and bustle is better applied when he's in the middle when he has space to run into allowing him to pick a pass or create enough space for a shot. For me personally Id rather my right winger was able to get into the area, swing in a cross and strike fear into his opposing full back, not let his own full back get forward. My point about Downing was that Young and Milner were not creating anything and his options on the bench were Downing who created nothing at Liverpool last year, the Ox, who is a kid allbeit a very talented one and Theo who just gets the ball and runs. Who was playing on the wings when Young & Downing couldnt get in the team I honestly cant recall? SWP? Gerrard was brilliant and was very good in the group stages but the man is what 32, he's not the same player he was a few years back and his performances were of such a high quality due to the heart the man has and his will to succeed. Good enough to perform in the latter stages of an international competition. I think they were lucky to get out of the group stages to be honest, they got a big slice of luck with that Ukraine goal. From what I hear Sweden can count themselves unlucky as well.

Speaking as a design professional I find these program's too limiting so I use MS Paint, it really helps make those finer details stand out. I work in an Italian fashion house so I know that MS Paint is really the only option. Really? Im absolutely terrible on paint

Pirlo 134 passes attempted, England midfield 131.

Agreed, one thing they all have in common is that they came through the academys of big clubs. I know West Ham are not considered huge, put that academy has produced a lot of quality. 10/23 players in the Euro 12 squad had at one stage or another been at a team who were in the championship or lower and that is not including loan spells. I'd imagine there is a large gulf in class in the standard of coaching that Baines got at Wigan in Division 2 to what Ashley Cole got in the Premiership at Arsenal.

Being Irish & the fact there are no current Villa players in the squad, in my opinion makes me a reasonable neutral on this, but for me personally several players in that squad are not good enough. Firstly, Danny Wellbeck, dont care what all my glory hunting United fan mates say, he's not an International standard striker. The man scored 9 goals in 30 games at United last year, I think a few on VT could even muster up that tally had we been playing with them. Carroll has been no where near deadly for Liverpool, Defoe only played 25 times for Spurs in the league last year, allbeit scoring 11 times but none of these 3 are International standard strikers. Milner as we all know isnt the same player on the wing as he is in the middle, another man who hasnt had as much game time as he would like, I feel Adam Johnson was a loss but he should have known moving to City might cost him his place in the national team, but I dont think he'll be too upset today when he looks at his bank balance or premier league winners medal. Young has been poor for United since September, the only thing of note he did recently was dive and get pens versus ourselves and QPR. Downing had another nightmare this season. The Ox is only a kid, how many games has he played in the Premiership? Gerrard is no longer the world class player he was a few years back either and England have no player who can do what Pirlo or Xavi does, nor do they have a David Silva, Mata, Modric type player. In my opinion a lot of the players need to be overhauled, Lampard & Gerrard I'd say bye to, no one could question how talented they are but SG will be 34 in two years time.

Scholes should have been on the plane! He's the only player that is capable of doing what Pirlo did tonight.

Talking to a lad today and told him if it went to pens young would miss as he missed a lot for villa. Backed Italy to win on pens at 10/1 as well

Watched it last night too, still great, and the MCC is the best Christmas film EVER!

Must admit I too was expecting to not like Will I Am at all but found myself liking him after last night to my amazement.

What program do people use to make the mock ups and is it hard to use?

Can anyone tell me if Gomes was rested or dropped last night? Have him backed for top goal scorer and was shocked to see him on the bench.

I agree, think he needs to bulk up a bit as well.

What I'd give for a Mark Delaney type signing £250k and just shy of 200 appearances. Really hope Lambert, if he does stay close to home when signing players is able to churn out a few of the gems. Least we forget, looking at the current England squad, Hart was in at Shrewsbury, Green played in the Championship with Norwich, Butland is still in the Championship with Blues, Baines played as low as Divison 2 with Wigan, Jagielka spent years in the Championship with Sheffield United, Lescott was at Wolves, Walcott was at Southampton, Young Watford, Ox Southampton, Carroll Newcastle. 10/23 isn't bad. Then there's other players like Walker, Smalling, Johnson, who didnt make the cut. Bale only cost £5mil up front a big risk you migh say but we paid more than that for Delph.

Does anyone know of any adidas teams who just get their badge printed on their gear as opposed to embroidered?

€46mil for Thiago Silva was mad! How did they turn it down?

Can someone explain what Holland need to qualify, whats the story with head to head if theyre all on 3 points and all beat each other?

Is the badge embroidered or not?

Anyone watching "30 for 30" on ESPN? I've been told they are some high quality sport documentaries.

Didnt the club give people the option of putting the acorns logo on the kids' shirts (when we were "sponsored" by them) ? I thought they werent too keen on forcing young kids to wear a logo that was directly linked with very sick children?

I think ( and hope ) that the flash is not letting us see the blue in the picture properly and it will be in fact a lot darker. Hope thats not a white collar as well

Can some one tell me is it going to be on the OS at Thursday 00:00 or Thursday 24:00 if you get what I mean? As in Wednesday night or Thursday night?

Most of our defence can't tackle either, well not without either injuring someone or conceding a penalty anyhow. Ashley Young couldn't make a tackle to save his life, I guess he was of no value to the midfield either? Remember that ONE tackle on Ronaldo where he lost the ball chased him down and slide in perfectly. I remember at the time thing, god Ronaldo would never do that.